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On a quiet Friday afternoon, diligent high schooler Faith learns she’s been chosen for a prestigious overseas exchange program. Thrilled, she rushes home to share the news, only to find her mother has taken her sister to the doctor. That weekend, at her father’s apartment, Faith cooks dinner and asks him to sign her acceptance papers. He refuses, citing money and favouring her sister. Devastated, Faith flees into the city, riding the subway alone. She daydreams she’s on a game show and wins. When she returns home, she sits with her feelings, then, determined, smooths out the paper and forges her father’s signature.
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Vanessa Magic is a Canadian Screen Award-nominated director and award-winning writer whose work centers around loneliness and grief, often from the eye of the outsider, with an Afrofuturist and Afrosurrealist lens. She is an alumni of Black Women Film, BIPOC Film & TV, The Warner Media Discovery Access x Canadian Academy Writers Program ’22 and Women In the Director’s Chair ’23, Slamdance Mentorship ’23 and the Blood in the Snow Horror Lab ’23.
